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• Matthew Mansfield Neely

  … both a friend of labor and a defender of the state’s business interest in Congress and the Senate, championing major coal, humanitarian, and progressive legislation. As governor, he was not remarkably successful at getting his programs passed by the state …

• Country Store

  … point for the community, frequently serving a radius of three or four miles. Lighting was by kerosene or gas lights. The store had a coal stove with benches around it. The post office was usually in a corner of the store, so the residents came each day to …

• Cozy Records

  … , Tucker County, was probably the most successful and long-lasting recording company ever in West Virginia. Started by John Bava (1913–97), a coal miner who sang and wrote songs, Cozy turned out vinyl records in the 78 rpm and 45 rpm formats, as well as …

• Newspapers

  … and early 20th centuries, dramatic growth in the lumber, coal, oil, gas, iron, glass, and salt industries brought substantial … . Mechanized mining produced rapidly declining employment in the coal industry while unemployment also increased in other areas of …

• Bruce Crawford

  Journalist Bruce Crawford (December 5, 1893-August 15, 1993) was born in Norton, Virginia. He spent his boyhood in Fayette County, before his family moved back to Norton for his high school years. After a brief stay at West Virginia University and service …

• Norfolk Southern Corporation

  … & West Virginia. The N&W served many coal mines in southern West Virginia as did the affiliated Virginian. … the most profitable railroads in the nation because of its heavy coal traffic. The Southern Railway was known for its efficient operations …

• Croatian Cultural Club

  … Benwood, "Marshall County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1521, in 1955 by Mike Perkovic, an immigrant Croatian coal miner who worked for decades to preserve and present Croatian culture around West Virginia. Perkovic’s children had been …

• The Cultural Landscape

  … , and which natural resources are plentiful. A coal preparation plant in southern West Virginia suggests the presence of coal mining nearby. The state’s abundant coal reserves contributed to the establishment of steel mills in the Northern …

• Northern Panhandle

  … but industry was the region’s future. An abundant resource base included coal, iron ore, petroleum and natural gas, timber, clay, and … , iron and steel, chemicals, petroleum and natural gas, and coal. According to the 2020 census, the Northern Panhandle's …

• Henry Gassaway Davis

  … ;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1029 and its branch lines two decades later, thus enabling him to transport his coal and lumber to eastern markets. Later, he constructed a railroad connecting Charleston and Elkins. Profits from these enterprises …

• Lawrence William Nuttall

  … in the New River Gorge in "Fayette County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2245 to join his father, the pioneer coal operator John Nuttall. When he wasn’t working he studied plants, and in just seven years collected about 1,000 species of …

• Oak Park

  … teams formed in surrounding towns and by mine companies. The advent of the automobile, the steady decline of the rail and coal industries, and the onset of the "Great Depression":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2155 led to the park’s …

• Alston G. Dayton

  … bitter enemy to the "United Mine Workers":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/835 with his rulings in "_Hitchman Coal & Coke v. John Mitchell_":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/426. In 1907, he issued a sweeping temporary …

• Eugene Victor Debs

  … for president, Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) played a controversial role in the West Virginia coal "strike of 1912–13":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1798, which spanned the terms of Governors "Glasscock& …

• Ohio County

  … the Ohio River. The "Pittsburgh coal seam":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org … and cigars, among other products. "Coal mining":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … Lea, Wesbanco Bank, and Ohio County Coal Resources. Many important West Virginians …

• Ohio River

  … the region. Fueled by the abundance of coal found in all the adjoining states, … Ohio Valley. The production of electricity from coal is also a major industry. After … consists of bulk natural resources such as coal, sand and gravel, and petrochemical products. …

• Sigfus Olafson

  … , Olafson went to work for the Yawkey-Freeman Corporation and was sent to West Virginia to help find and develop the company’s coal and gas resources. In the mid-1920s, he settled in Madison, "Boone County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Meadow River Lumber Company

  … cars that could be moved to new timber supplies. The company eventually owned 75,000 acres and also bought timber from nearby coal and land companies. Teams of horses skidded the logs to the railroad until 1930, when the company switched to overhead cable …

• Medicine

  … rural primary care delivery was found in the West Virginia coalfields. There ‘‘coal camp doctors’’ provided needed care to coal miners and their families through pre-paid, per capita financing, a precursor to the …

• Old-Time Music

  … different. There is more emphasis on tight vocal harmonies. Traditionally, the old-time music lived in homes, farms, timber camps, or coal towns and was part of lives filled with hard work. Elmer Bird remembered his father playing music to relax after a …

• The One-Room School

  … and featured rough-cut frames, lap siding, tin roofs, south-facing windows, and a potbelly stove. Outside there was a coal house, well, and, on the perimeter of the school grounds, outdoor toilets for each sex. Hundreds of the school buildings survive …

• Michael Owens

  … /2116. He was born in Point Pleasant, the son of poor Irish immigrants. He went to work with his father in a Mason County coal mine before he was ten years old. When a slate fall injured young Owens, the family moved to Wheeling where he began a life-long …

• Pack Peddlers

  … and wagon. Traveling alone and carrying cash, they courted danger, and stories of the robbery and murder of peddlers abound. Some coal operators who saw them as competition to company stores tried to keep them out of the coalfields. But on the whole, …

• Painted Trees

  … Branch in Fayette County,’’ he wrote in 1958. ‘‘This bottom is well suited for Indian encampment and is at the point where the Coal River path, a more direct but also a more difficult route to the Indian towns on the Scioto, joined the main path on Paint …

• Minerals

  … and bulky and largely limited to the coal market. Limestone and dolomite are sedimentary … for use in road building, agricultural lime, coal mine safety dust, in coal … needs for pollution controls associated with coal mining and utilities should result in …